How To Focus and Eliminate the Possibility of Interruptions

I don’t think anyone does, but most people do something that’s equivalent.

Workers are interrupted once every 10.5 minutes on average.

That’s not even the worst part: studies show it takes on average 23 minutes to regain focus.

7-minute interruptions cost you a half hour in actual focused work time.

Every time you’re interrupted, the process of regaining focus starts all over.

What is an hour of your time worth? What is half an hour of your time worth? That’s what an interruption costs. Every time you break your focus, you are setting money on fire.

You have to not only eliminate distractions, but you have to eliminate the very possibility of interruptions.

Chances are, you’re getting interrupted way more often than you realize and it’s killing your productivity. It may seem like interruptions are outside your control, but you have more power over them than you realize.

In this short video, I talk about:

How I create a distraction-free zone.

The whiteboard trick I use to stay focused.

A New Podcast

The video above is a short clip from a new show launching on Tuesday. If you’re a podcast listener, you might have heard that I’m expanding seanwes as a platform and starting a podcast network.

Right now, there are half a dozen new shows planned, and one of the first to debut is a weekly podcast called Lambo Goal that launches on March 24, 2015.

It’s a podcast about business. Two entrepreneurs, myself and Matt Lopez, set an insane goal and take you behind the scenes in this podcast about business to show you every step along the way to achieving it.

Topics we cover in this show:

Validating Your Business Idea

Creating A Business Plan

What Is Focus Worth in Dollars?

Content Creation

Online and Offline Marketing

Working With Virtual (and Non-Virtual) Assistants

Hiring

Funding

My friend, Matt, is serial entrepreneur who runs 20 businesses in almost every industry you can think of. What’s crazy to me is that he has little-to-no online presence.

With my businesses being almost entirely online and him dominating the offline market, we end up learning a ton from each other. Rather than keep this to ourselves, we decide to learn and share in public.